Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— By a 3-2 vote, the city council approved the planned unit development for a 52-lot neighborhood called Country Meadows by its developer.
The city’s planning and zoning committee earlier approved a 55-lot neighborhood. The developer reduced his proposal by three lots to make room for a recreational area.
Council members Bobby Brown and Chris Thompson voted against the plan for the development at the intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Paradise Point Drive.
Council Member Tony Brown said that the 14-acre parcel is one of the few in the city large enough for a new neighborhood and that if the council wants the city to grow, the council had no choice but to approve the PUD.
“I’ve lived here when we had a caution light and when we had our first red light,” Brown said. “I’ve seen Keystone grow and we’re not dead.”
Council member Bobby Brown said he preferred to stick with the parcel’s current residential zoning rather than approving the PUD. Brown also expressed concern about the smaller sizes of the neighborhood’s interior lots, arguing that the recreation area taking up square footage from the internal lots is unneeded because Sunrise Park is across the street.
